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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, April 29, 2014
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A&O, SEED name first 2 Philfest artists » PAGE 3
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opinion DouglasIn adaptation, creative
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City talks new shelter partners
NU remembers Holocaust
By paige leskinthe daily northwestern @paigeleskin
City Council voted Monday to discuss the two volunteer animal care organiza-tions who expressed interest in replacing Community Animal Rescue Effort as a partner of the Evanston Animal Shelter.
Chicago-based non-profit Anti-Cruelty Society and Saving Animals for Evanston, which is made up of former CARE vol-unteers who helped rescue animals that were in line to be euthanized, responded to the city’s request for qualifications in managing the animal shelter.
Council voted at its April 8 meeting to terminate the city’s relationship with CARE. The decision followed a period of negotiations between CARE and Evan-ston, in which aldermen put forward new
revised policies that CARE would have to follow in order to stay in Evanston. When those failed, City Council ordered the organization halt its work at the shelter and leave the premises by May 9.
Evanston Police Cmdr. James Pickett, who is overseeing the shelter’s operations during the transition, updated aldermen on CARE’s movement and volunteer coordination at the shelter.
“We still have a long way to go,” Pickett said. “We have plenty of volunteers. We’ll be able to move forward with business as usual after May 9.”
After hearing concerns from residents about funds collected by CARE for the shelter, the council directed city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to discuss the issue with the organization.
The money in question — more than
By Jordan harrisonthe daily northwestern @MedillJordan
A Northwestern professor was awarded a grant to work on a medi-cal testing device that can be used to diagnose infectious diseases in remote, inaccessible areas.
Biomedical engineering Prof. David Kelso, who earned a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been working since 2006 on a device called Savanna that currently tests mainly for HIV and tuberculo-sis but has the ability to be used to test for diseases including hepatitis and human papillomavirus in the future.
Kelso said the device will speed up diagnosis and treatment of diseases in rural areas.
“These tests are currently done on very large, very expensive automated systems that are in labs in the capital city or in district hospitals but the patients are being seen in rural clinics in remote areas,” he said. “What this does is it puts the automated testing equipment in the clinic in the rural area and that way the result can be turned around the same day while the patient is there.”
Mark Weislogel (McCormick ‘96), a professor of mechanical and mate-rials engineering at Portland State University, advised Kelso on the design after he ran into problems transporting fluids in the Savanna
device. Weislogel said he helped Kelso account for capillary flow in the design.
Capillary flow is the movement of a liquid due to interactions between the liquid and a solid surface. It is more prominent in small systems like Kelso’s device, Weislogel said.
“We’re trying to exploit the capil-lary force so we don’t have to have any moving parts — no pumps,” Weislogel said. “We want passive systems that do things naturally due to capillary forces, due to wetting and surface tension.”
Weislogel is the principal investi-gator on the Capillary Flow Experi-ment on the International Space
By annie BruCedaily senior staffer @anniefb13
Northwestern’s Body and Media Lab started an initiative last week encourag-ing individuals to flip over magazines with covers that are unhealthy for female body image.
Psychology Prof. Renee Engeln heads the Body and Media Lab, which focuses on research about the effects of culture on female body image. She said the ini-tiative, called “Turn it Around,” allows members of the lab to take a more active role that would impact people on a regu-lar basis.
“We wanted to give women an every-day act they could do that would give them a little more control over what types of images they’re exposed to,” Engeln said.
She said body image can have a big impact on women’s future behavior and emotional health, which is one of the reasons why Turn it Around is so important.
“Body dissatisfaction is a big pre-dictor of eating disorder behavior,” she said. “It’s also related to depression and anxiety, so there are a lot of good reasons to want to try to reduce women’s body
dissatisfaction.”Research assistants at the lab encour-
age all participants to take pictures as they flip over different magazines, and they have set up a Facebook and Tumblr page for people to share the images.
Engeln said turning over the maga-zines can also have an impact on others who are not directly participating in the initiative.
“In the end, it’s not really about post-ing your picture, it’s more about getting into the practice on a regular basis,” she said. “The idea is that if you turn some of these magazines around, you’re not just limiting your own exposure, but you’re probably helping out some of the people who are going to be in line behind you, too.”
Weinberg sophomore Margaret Shav-lik, who has been working as a research assistant at the Body and Media Lab since the fall, said she is also concerned about younger children who see these magazines on a regular basis.
“We should do something to help the girls and boys of the future or the next generation not be as hurt by certain ideals and body dissatisfaction and self-objectification,” she said. “We don’t have to accept passive exposure to things that
By reBeCCa savranskydaily senior staffer @beccasavransky
Northwestern community members gathered to honor and commemorate Holocaust victims in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Several student groups sponsored events to show respect and solidarity for those affected by the Holocaust. Differ-ent speakers gave talks discussing the importance of remembering the trag-edy, and a march and memorial service were held at The Rock on Monday after-noon. Students marched from The Rock
through campus before returning back to The Rock for the memorial service. During the service, Rabbi Aaron Potek spoke, and several poems were read in commemoration.
Prior to the memorial service, author Marty Brounstein spoke to about 20 individuals about a couple who sacrificed their own lives to save those in danger of being sent to concentration camps during World War II.
Brounstein is known for his book, “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust,” published in 2011. He has spoken to more than 260 audiences to share this story.
Brounstein began his talk by asking
members of the audience three questions about whether or not they would be will-ing to sacrifice their own lives for those who were most in need of their help. He continued his discussion by describing the history of World War II, emphasiz-ing the absolute destruction occurring after Germany initially invaded Poland in 1939.
“When it’s finally over, you’re going to have over 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust,” Brounstein said.
He noted Jews were not the only ones targeted during the war, but disabled individuals and political opponents,
Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
‘nEvEr forGEt’ Students look on during a memorial service for victims of the Holocaust at The Rock on Monday afternoon. The service was preceded by a silent walk in the memory of lives lost during the Holocaust.
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Pick A PArtnEr Evanston Police Cmdr. James Pickett updates aldermen on the city’s efforts to take over operations at the Evanston Animal Shelter.
Prof’s device can detect disease Campaign promotes positive body image
City resident receives state service award
An Evanston resident was among more than 20 Illinois residents given awards Monday for community service by the governor’s office and the Illinois Department of Human Services.
Shira Choi was awarded the Gover-nor’s Volunteer Service Award for her work with Heartland Health Outreach
in Chicago, where she educated home-less people about their health insur-ance eligibility under the Affordable Care Act.
An AmeriCorps volunteer, Choi also helped people navigate the HealthCare.gov website to enroll in Medicaid or in insurance marketplaces.
The Heartland Health Outreach, the branch of the Chicago-based nonprofit Heartland Alliance that deals with health care issues, provides health care to medically underserved residents.
Four businesses and 22 other Illinois
residents were also presented with Vol-unteer Service Awards this morning.
“Every day across Illinois, thou-sands of volunteers donate their time and work hard to help others and build stronger communities,” Gov. Pat Quinn said in a news release. “Today we are honoring these individuals who donate their time to make our communities better and set an example for others with their initiative, creativity and energy.”
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taxi driver assaulted in Evanston
A Chicago taxi driver was assaulted in north Evanston by his passenger on Saturday night, police said.
The 54-year-old driver picked up his cus-tomer near the 4800 block of North Clark Street in Chicago, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The Chicago resident drove the passenger to the intersection of Noyes Street and Ridge Avenue, where the man held
a metal object to the driver’s right side and said he didn’t have any money to pay the fare, police said. The man then exited the cab and ran eastbound on Noyes Street.
Parrott said the passenger was possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident.
waukegan resident arrested in connection with assaulting a police officer
A Waukegan resident was arrested Friday in connection with aggravated assault of a
police officer in central Evanston.Police responded to a disturbance in
the 1900 block of Jackson Avenue, where the 29-year-old was yelling profanities and appeared to be intoxicated, Parrott said. The man then clenched his fists and took an aggressive position toward the officer pres-ent. The man was subsequently taken into custody, police said.
Parrott said the 29-year-old is a former Evanston resident and is scheduled to appear in court May 14.
— Julian Gerez
National high school graduation rate exceeds 80 percent for first time
WASHINGTON — The national high school graduation rate has reached a record high of more than 80%, but disparities based on students’ racial, socio-economic and disability status remain alarming, according to an annual report by America’s Promise Alliance, a nonprofit group founded by former Sec-retary of State Colin Powell.
An estimated four out of five public high school students obtained their diploma in 2012, according to the report, which used the latest available data from the Department of Education. But figures were
lower for minority students. Seventy-six percent of Latino students and 68 percent of African-American students graduated, the report found.
“We have to be honest that this is a matter of equity and that we have to change the opportunity equation,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday. “All of America’s children are our children.”
Recent improvements in the nation’s high school graduation rate — which has risen 8 percentage points in six years — have been driven by the clo-sure of so-called “dropout factories,” typically high-minority schools that graduate less than 60 percent of students. In 2002, those schools enrolled almost half of all African-American students but by 2012, that number dropped to only 23 percent.
The results underscore the need for more federal funding to ensure that all students are provided with
the same opportunities, said Daniel J. Losen, the director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA.
“We still have many school districts where it looks like apartheid in America,” he said. “It’s going to require more than the contributions of the pri-vate sector and the competitive grants of the federal government.”
Several categories of students face persistently lower odds of graduating, including those with physical and mental disabilities, those from low-income families and those learning English as a second language.
The nation’s graduation rate began decreasing in the 1990s, but with rising awareness of the dropout crisis in certain school districts, states and districts began implementing reforms in the 2000s, which are now beginning to bear fruit.
“Schools were for a long time ignoring this facet,” said Losen. “They were focused for the longest time on test scores.”
Joanna Hornig Fox, the deputy director of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins Uni-versity and one of the report’s authors, attributed the improved rates in part to recent federal education reform bills, including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, which implemented nationwide standards and performance-based funding for public schools.
Fox said that thanks to efforts to ensure “students do a great more deal of writing and explain their thinking,” now students in poorer districts are “not just filling in the blank.”
-— Lalita Clozel (Tribune Washington Bureau)
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City looks to cut newspaper boxes
By Kelly Gonsalvesdaily senior staffer @kellyagonsalves
Evanston’s public works staff proposed Monday a plan to cut the number of news-paper distribution box locations by almost two-thirds to clear street clutter and maintain the city’s rights-of-way.
The Administration and Public Works Com-mittee encouraged city staff to move forward with drafting an amendment to Evanston’s
newspaper box policy, which will decrease the number of citywide box locations from 46 to 17. The proposal came in response to an increased number of vendors placing boxes on city streets without first seeking necessary permits, public works director Suzette Rob-inson said.
“(It’s an) opportunity to consolidate the boxes to more central locations in an effort to clear up the clutter, create a more uniform look along the street and increase the walkability along those corridors,” she said.
According to Robinson’s presentation at the meeting, there are currently 223 boxes at 46 locations citywide, a 25 percent decrease since 2012, and 31 different publications that use them to distribute print products. The pro-posed amendment would consolidate these boxes to 17 locations concentrated in the downtown Evanston area. Each location would feature a single corral containing four boxes. Each four-box unit would cost about $1,500.
The policy update would also include more specific regulations for how vendors request use of each newspaper box and would require a city permit to be visible within the box. Any additional boxes placed without city permis-sion would be removed after 48 hours, Rob-inson said.
Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) raised concerns about issues of freedom of speech that could arise from only allowing certain publications to use the limited number of boxes.
“I think you’re getting into a real tricky territory. It’s sort of like censorship,” Rainey said. “I think we have way too many boxes and way too much junk, but I think once you start saying, ‘You can be here, and you can’t,’ then I don’t know.”
But city attorney Grant Farrar said concerns about the public safety, welfare and access to city streets should allow the city to make the proposed policy changes.
Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) also pointed out that there is no current system in place to restrict any vendor from removing another vendor’s materials from a box and replacing them with their own publications.
With the committee’s approval, city staff will move forward with drafting the revision to the ordinance and collecting feedback from the public, Robinson said. The staff will come back to the committee with a formal proposal including a finalized number of boxes and a list of locations in about two months, she said.
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pApErlEss The Administration and Public Works committee heard a proposal Monday to cut the number of newspaper box locations in Evanston from 46 to 17.
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Sunnyside Up and Todd Kessler will be among the artists featured at Saturday’s Phil-fest. The headliner has yet to be announced.
Philfest is an annual collaboration between A&O Productions and Students for Ecological and Environmental Development, featuring bluegrass and folk music as part of an effort to promote environmental awareness. The
festival also raises money for Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit aimed at the sustainable use of resources.
The day is held in honor of Phil Sem-mer, a former SEED member, who died in a car crash when studying abroad.
Sunnyside Up is a bluegrass band that incorporates jazz and rock into their music. Kessler, who was a season three
contestant on NBC’s “The Voice,” is a Chicago-based artist who has performed at many local venues including Lincoln Hall, Millennium Park and SPACE.
A&O spokeswoman Shelly Tan said the groups will both bring a great live component to their performances.
“(Sunnyside Up) brings a really unique spin to bluegrass with more of a rocky sound,” the Medill senior said. “Kessler will have a fun public aspect to his performance as people might recognize him from ‘The Voice.’”
The show is free and will take place on Nor-ris University Center’s East Lawn at 1 p.m. Doors will be open at 12:30 p.m. In addition to the concert, many student groups including Project Wildcat, Eco-Reps and Associated Stu-dent Government Sustainability will be hosting activities including tie-dye, slacklining and bottle bricking.
Tan said students should expect a relaxing atmosphere throughout the day.
“It’s one of the most chill events of the year,” she said. “The weather is starting to warm up, and people are starting to get outdoors.”
Philfest co-chair Christine Cho said she is looking forward to working with the other student groups and to hosting the event outdoors.
“Last year, we had to host the event indoors, so I’m hoping we have nice weather this year,” the Weinberg senior said. “We have a lot of cool activities planned such as a smoothie bike, which is where students can make smoothies by peddling a bike that is hooked to a blender.”
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By reBecca SavranSkydaily senior staffer @beccasavransky
A Weinberg professor was awarded the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Allen Dis-tinguished Investigator award for his research in mapping and defining cell types in the human body over time.
Molecular biosciences Prof. Neil Kelleher said he has been working on the research for the past several years and is looking forward to continuing his project. Each recipient of the grant receives between $1 million and
$1.2 million over a three-year time period.
“It’s a grant about defining human wellness and dis-ease in particular types of cells in human blo o d,” Kelleher said. “We want to map out the natural path-way that how these cells mature from being in your bone marrow to being in your blood and pre-venting you from getting infections.”
Kelleher said the initiative is a three-year project, noting
it is extremely large in scale. He said the Allen Foundation values people who “take on bold, risky projects,” when awarding its grants and his project satisfied the requirements. The approach of studying how proteins change brings with it many challenges, but has the potential to have a great impact in the field if successful, he said.
Kelleher added the initiative aims to find an “agreed-upon path to inventory all the cells and all the protein molecules in them in the entire human body.” He said the project is similar in size and scope to the genome
project, noting individuals have tried to complete similar initiatives in the past with “varying degrees of success.”
With the grant, Kelleher and his team will use single-cell tracking methods in order to effectively document the development of white blood cells. Kelleher said he was excited about winning the grant and is looking for-ward to making using of the funds.
“I was pleasantly surprised,” Kelleher said. “I worked, myself and my team, here in the proteomic center, worked very hard on this particular application because Paul Allen and his team in Seattle, they have a particular eye for science that could be big someday, and this is why I was so excited to be endorsed through this program with the Allen Foundation.”
A&O, SEED announce Philfest featured artists
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New study connects consumer behavior to ozone air pollution
Northwestern researchers published Mon-day the first real-world trial examining the effects of human behavior and gasoline use on air pollution.
The interdisciplinary study reports a 20
percent drop in the ozone levels of Sao Paulo, Brazil, after fuel prices encouraged commuters to switch from ethanol to gasoline.
The fuel switch also showed an increase in the concentration of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide.
Chemistry Prof. Franz Geiger and former Kellogg Prof. Alberto Salvo conducted the four-year study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
“Individuals often don’t realize it, but in the
aggregate, you can have a real impact on the environment,” Salvo said in a news release.
Sao Paulo has a strong air monitoring sys-tem, moderate weather and the world’s largest fleet of flexible-fuel vehicles, making it the best “natural laboratory” in which to study the impact of consumers on air quality.
Geiger and Salvo plan to begin working with McCormick Prof. Aaron Packman to study how the concentration of air pollutants in Chicago could change depending on future
traffic scenarios.“This work allows us to start thinking about
the urban metabolism of Chicago, which is an emerging megacity surrounded by ‘corn country,’” Geiger said in the release.
“Ethanol from corn is a particularly intrigu-ing option for future, possibly more competi-tive, energy markets. It’s an area we need to watch,” he said.
— Ciara McCarthy
“Kessler will have a fun public aspect to his performance as people might recognize him from ‘The Voice.’Shelly Tan,A&O spokeswoman
Allen Foundation gives NU prof investigator grant
“We want to map ... (the) pathway that how these cells mature from being in your bone marrow to being in your blood and preventing you from getting infections.Neil Kelleher,Weinberg professor
Bluegrass band Sunnyside Up, ‘Voice’ contestant Todd Kessler to perform Saturday
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Assessing adaptation on ‘Game of Thrones’
In the third episode of season four of “Game of Thrones” (spoiler alert), a female character is raped by a male character. That may sound like something that would hap-pen often in Westeros, the medieval-style land in which the story unfolds, and indeed, it has been intimated, threatened and shown several times already in the show’s earlier seasons. But this time, it was different.
“Why should I care about this abra-sively violent scene in an already violent TV show?” you ask yourself.
An understandable query, and in this instance, the answer stems not from the rape culture prevalent on the HBO show (although itself a very disturbing thing), but rather from the risks of “misadaptation.” The speciality in this particular instance of female overpower-ment comes from a comparison with the
original book.In the book, the act is consensual.The book, while allowing for the male
character’s first-person point of view in the narration, leaves the reader with, according to the author, George R. R. Martin, a “differ-ent impression” than the television show. In the HBO adaptation, however, the woman’s final lines are “It’s not right. It’s not right,” while her male counterpart claims, “I don’t care. I don’t care.” If someone doesn’t say “yes,” it is not consensual. Rape is rape.
But why did the production team feel the need to portray this instance of sexual inter-course as rape? If the story were not based on a book series, this question might deal with
the sociological undertones of human nature. However, because it is based on a story from another medium, it is necessary to question the greater problem of adaptation.
In the artistic realm, many projects are inspired by outstanding stories: musicals, novels, films, etc. But to use the phrase “inspired by” does not imply the same faith-fulness to the original story that must come when something is adapted. It must be the same story, in a different medium. When a story is adapted, yet differs dramatically from its source material, it is no longer the same story. It can no longer be “based on” whatever it claims to be adapted from.
Understandably, limitations exist in every medium that are not shared in others; in film, it is difficult (impossible? Help me out, Department of Radio, Television and Film) to tell a story from a first person, internal point of view. But to use a limitation to alter the audience’s perception of the characters is unacceptable, because characters are the driv-ing forces of story.
This also has an effect on the contract between an audience and, here, the television show. Because it is no longer the same story when a character has power in one medium and in another has none, the production team has lied to the audience about both the content and the story that appears on the screen.
Even Martin said of his interactions with the production team that they “never dis-cussed this scene, to the best of (his) recol-lection.” Martin’s lack of say in the process of the retelling of his story is disconcerting artistically because he has lost control over his creations: his characters.
Are the characters the same characters in the television show as they are in the books? Not anymore. When they are altered at all, the adaptation disconnects its discourse with its original source. If adapters aren’t kept from changing characters without consulting the original source’s creator, what is that but theft of intellectual property?
Sam Douglas is a Communication sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, a group of roughly 30 students listens to the ani-mated visiting Prof. Yakir Englander discuss the role of Jewish theology in the Israel-Pales-tine conflict. The class’ interactive environment encourages dissension, and allows students to express their unadulterated opinions.
A diverse demographic of students is tak-ing the class, which includes both Jews and Muslims. Jews and Muslims taking a class on the Israel-Palestine conflict? Does it not seem like dangerous territory? Going into the class, I too was under this impression. I too expected nothing but Jewish students fervently defending the actions of Israelis while Muslim students exclusively voiced the tribulations the Palestinians have faced under the occupation. As a Muslim student who identifies as pro-Palestine, I expected less support for my side, but I was surprised.
In class this past Thursday, after watching a film in which Jewish settlers expressed resent-ment when they had to evacuate their homes as a result of the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza, I heard nothing but accordance. Jewish students with strong ties to Israel, and others alike, agreed: The settlers were in the same position as the Palestinians being evicted from their homes. How could they not empathize?
During another scene in the movie, a Jew-ish woman from the settlement complained because, “The Arabs have 22 countries, while we only have this one,” asking “why can’t they just go to one of those 22 countries?” A feel-ing of shock at the ignorance of her statement was palpable. Jewish students and others alike, once again, ridiculed her narrow-minded nature: “How can she think they can just leave their home and go to any other Arab country? They don’t even speak the same kind of Arabic. They don’t have the same culture.”
I sat, and I waited. I waited for the voice that I thought existed. I waited to hear the pro-Israel voice step up and defend this woman, defend this occupation and exhibit the views
I always thought that the majority of Jewish people have. But it didn’t come. Hand after hand, students agreed: It was an atrocity.
So why then, if all 30 of the students in that room can see the injustices committed by Israelis in these settlements, does the cause of pro-Palestinian groups seem so lost? Why then, do groups like Students for Justice in Palestine struggle to render support?
It is not because they are a minority up against the masses. It is not because popu-lar opinion is against them. It is not because Northwestern is a Zionist institution or that students are all pro-Israel. It is because the opposition is small, but they appear mighty. It is because a small number of people who still cannot see the truth attempt to represent the large number of people who are begin-ning to. It is because we have started to believe their guise of power. NU is full of intellectual students who upon reading just one or two articles, upon seeing five minutes of a video clip, are capable of coming together.
The problem begins when we make assump-tions. The problem begins when we assume that the masses are against the cause. The problem lies in the fact that the only people that care enough about this issue are on either end of it. They are Palestinian and they are Israeli, and their side of the story has always been a part of them. But the solution lies with the masses.
The solution lies with the students in my class, with all the students who may not con-nect with either Israel or Palestine, but will listen to the voice of reason. If more classes like Englander’s existed, if more individuals were exposed to the history and current state of Israel-Palestine, they would agree that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is unjust. It is these students who need to engage in dialogue. It is these students who need to be educated on the issue, so that they can help in the fight.
As history has proved time and time again, the power is truly with the people. And if NU wants to take a stand for justice, it is from the open-minded individuals willing to learn that this stand must arise.
Nida Bajwa is a Weinberg freshman. She can be con-tacted at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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“When a story is adapted, yet differs dramatically from its source material, it is no longer the same story. It can no longer be “based on” whatever it claims to be adapted from.
Education has power in Israel-Palestine conflict
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year time period, which only gets worse as it moves on, if you’re in this list, in many cases you’re life is not just a nightmare, you’re doomed because you may be cap-tured before you realize what’s happening” he said.
He called this point in time “a climate of hate and indifference,” noting the lack of care people exhibited just furthered the hatred felt toward targeted during wartime.
“It is the most frightening time, many will say, in the world’s history,” he said.
Brounstein continued to describe a group called the L.O., a national organization focused on helping to hide individuals in danger of being sent to concentra-tion camps during the Holocaust. He noted though that the majority of people during that time were not willing to sacrifice their own lives for others.
“There will only be a handful of people throughout the whole continent of Europe, let alone the world, who have the courage and compassion to say ‘wait a minute, maybe I should try to help,’” Brounstein said.
However, two individuals willing to risk their lives for others included Frans and Mien Wijnakker, the main characters of Brounstein’s book. To describe the couple, Brounstein said they were “ordinary people who do extraordinary things.” During the time of the war, the couple saved more than 20 individuals in danger of being exported to concentration camps,
hiding them in their house along with four children of their own.
At the end of the event, Brounstein revealed he had a more personal connection to the couple. The Wijnakkers had taken in another couple in an effort to save their lives, who during the time of the Holocaust, became pregnant, and gave birth to the woman who Brounstein married.
Brounstien said he traveled with his wife, who also spoke briefly at the end of the event, to spread his message and his story and had since been back to the house in the Netherlands where his wife was born and protected during the Holocaust.
After the talk, a short Q-and-A session was held. Audience members asked questions varying from how many Christian households often took in Jews and requested more detail about the L.O. network. Broun-stein noted throughout the war, the network was not always steady, and many individuals were unwilling to continue their commitment as the war worsened.
SESP sophomore Jacqueline Soria said she thought it was important for individuals continue to remember the Holocaust, noting she had a more personal con-nection to this time in history as her grandmother was in the Holocaust.
“I think this event was really cool because the way it was presented, it was framed as something from the interfaith perspective,” she said. “I think going to events like this are really important for preserving and honor-ing memories of victims of the Holocaust.”
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$500,000 raised by CARE to renovate the shelter — is currently still under CARE’s control, although the city has terminated its relationship with the organization.
“This money was given in the name of, directed to and for the development of, the Evanston Animal Center, and that’s the manner it was intended,” Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said. “I think we owe it to residents to pursue that.”
CARE volunteer Karen Straus said during citizen comment that she was worried money Evanston resi-dents donated to the Evanston Animal Shelter would remain under CARE’s control and would not be used to renovate the shelter.
“I worked for 14 years to try to make that dream a reality,” Straus said. “I do not want to see that dream walk out of the city of Evanston.”
CARE first came under scrutiny in 2012 for its practices in running the Evanston Animal Shelter. Volunteers voiced concern about CARE’s process of evaluating animal behavior, as well as the canine eutha-nasia rate, which was at about 45 percent at the time.
At its Monday meeting, City Council also approved the creation of an Evanston Board of Animal Control, to which Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl will appoint seven members. Once staffed, the board will work closely with aldermen in reviewing the letters from the inter-ested groups and developing requests for proposals for them in the next several weeks, Bobkiewicz said.
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are going to hurt us.”The Turn it Around Facebook page already has
more than 250 likes, since it was created Thursday. Shavlik said she is excited by all of the support people have shown for Turn it Around and hopes it encour-ages individuals to take action on their own.
“It’s just a little thing you can do to cut back on negative body image exposure in somebody else’s day,”
she said.Weinberg junior Olivia Foster-Gimbel, another
research assistant at the lab, said she hopes Turn it Around has long-term effects that impact magazine design in the future.
“People who make these magazines will start see-ing that we don’t want to see that anymore,” she said. “Ideally, in a perfect world, we won’t have to turn it around anymore.”
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Station, which involved studying the behavior of liquids in the absence of gravity.
Kelso said his device will also help monitor viral levels after diagnosis and, in the case of HIV, help ensure patients take medications correctly.
“When a person is first starting therapy, some of the drugs have side effects and the patients really stop taking their medications,”
he said. “But it’s been shown if you can demon-strate that the viral levels are coming down and that the medications are doing their job, then the patients will take their medications.
Kelso said he plans to field test his device in South Africa by the end of this year or early next year, and will then test Savanna in part-nership with the pharmaceutical company Quidel Corporation in the top ten countries that have the highest rates of HIV.
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CTA considers bypass to speed up Purple, other linesBy Bailey WilliamSthe daily northwestern @news_BaileyW
The CTA is considering adding a bypass to a busy rail intersection that would expedite service on several lines, including the Purple Line, as early as 2017.
Ridership has increased by 40 percent in the last 5 years in the north Chicago area where the intersection is located, Chicago Transit Authority spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis said.
“CTA is always looking to improve service,” Lukidis said in an email. “The current track configuration prevents us from meeting cur-rent demand let alone future ridership and demand growth.”
The feature is seeking to address the prob-lem of stops that occur every three to 10 min-utes from 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. when up to three Red and Purple Line trains have to wait for one Brown Line train to cross an intersec-tion. These stops amount to a CTA-estimated total of 448 hours in a year and occur more frequently during rush hour.
The three lines meet at an intersection, where the Red and Purple line trains some-times have to wait for signal clearance from crossing Brown line trains.
The CTA gave a number of reasons for needing the bypass, including the outdated layout of the current track arrangement, the mission to better serve current and future riders and the delays caused on Brown, Red and Purple lines.
“During peak periods all three lines are slowed down at (these) rail intersections.” Lukidis said in an email. “The improve-ments will improve speed and capacity of all three.”
The various features of the project will cost
different amounts, Lukidis said. The Red-Purple Bypass Project itself is estimated to cost $320 million, some station work will cost about $1.130 billion and other signal upgrades and track work will cost about $270 million.
The plans for the bypass have not been finalized, Lukidis said. CTA personnel are seeking feedback from the public. The con-struction details such as the duration and who will be hired for construction are not known yet, because they are still in an environment phase, Lukidis said.
“Ultimately the work that will be done with the Bypass as well as station and track improvements will improve not only speed but capacity for more trains for generations to come,” Lukidis said in an email.
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SPEEDY SOLUTION the Chicago transit authority’s damen station is one of many stations along the Brown line that would benefit from expedited service with a bypass. Construction on the new bypass could begin as early as 2017.
By REBECCA FRIEDMANdaily senior staffer
The final Big Ten road trip of the season didn’t go as well as No. 25 Northwestern had intended.
The Wildcats (29-14, 11-9 Big Ten) dropped three in a row to Ohio State (25-23, 11-9), leav-ing them in sixth place in the conference with one series against Michigan State left in the regular season.
Ohio State outplayed NU all weekend, leav-ing the Cats scratching their heads.
“They played very well,” coach Kate Dro-han said. “They played with a lot of energy. They had the clutch pitches and clutch hits. They were the better team.”
In the first matchup, the Cats took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning on an RBI dou-ble from sophomore Andrea Filler.
But the Buckeyes answered quickly, knocking a run in the same inning to even the score.
Sophomore starter Kristen Wood did an impressive job of holding off the Buckeyes, until the fifth inning, when Ohio State knocked in the go-ahead run and another insurance run for the 3-1 win. Ohio State held off NU over the final two innings to seal the win.
Wood finished with eight strikeouts to only one walk and allowed just four hits through six innings. Filler led the Cats at the plate, going 3-for-3 in the loss.
The Buckeyes’ defense was a huge reason for the victory, including an impressive double play turned for the final outs of the game to thwart the Cats’ last-ditch rally.
NU fell short again in the next matchup.
This time, the Cats were unable to capitalize on promising offensive opportunities. Both senior Marisa Bast and Drohan listed runners left on base as a key explanation for the Cats’ inability to get a win in Columbus.
The game was back and forth throughout the first few innings, as the two teams took turns taking the lead. Ohio State pulled away in the fourth inning for a 6-3 lead, its largest of the game to that point.
This time the Cats were able to answer with a rally of their own in the fifth, taking a 7-6 lead. Seniors Emily Allard and Mari Majam kick-started the inning with a pair of singles. Bast added a double to knock in one run and put runners in scoring position. The rally threat-ened the Buckeyes, who pulled starting pitcher Shelby Hursh in favor of the starter from the first matchup, Olivia O’Reilly.
Junior Andrea DiPrima knocked in another run before another impressive Ohio State dou-ble play. Sophomore Brianna LeBeau hit a triple to left-center and Filler added a single to put the Cats ahead.
NU threatened again in the bottom of the sixth, loading the bases, but Ohio State was able to get out of the jam with no damage done.
The Buckeyes carried the momentum in the bottom of the sixth to knock in two runs and eventually hold off the Cats for the 8-7 victory.
“There were lots of opportunities to build on our lead when we had it,” Drohan said. “We cer-tainly didn’t bring our ‘A’ game to Columbus.”
The third game featured five home runs, including three by the Cats. It was the two by the Buckeyes, though, which ended up being the difference in the game.
Ohio State took an early 2-0 lead in the first. The Cats were able to fight back to tie thanks to back-to-back leadoff home runs from Edwards and LeBeau.
However, the Buckeyes regained the lead in the bottom of the inning and never gave it up. The Cats pulled within one run but were unable to tie it. Ohio State ran away with the game in the sixth, a three-run home run giving the Buckeyes a 7-3 lead and holding NU to only one more run for the 7-4 victory.
“They got all the clutch hits we didn’t get,” Bast said. “We lost a lot of runners on base. There were a lot of adjustments we didn’t make. It was just a bad three days, we came up short.”
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THREE STRIKES Junior Andrea DiPrima and the Wildcats had a rough weekend, dropping three straight games at Ohio State. “We certainly didn’t bring our ‘A’ game to Columbus,” coach Kate Drohan said.
College team in a race to save gasPHILADELPHIA — Its top speed is 35
m.p.h. It has less horsepower than a lawn mower.
Nevertheless, the bright-red, berglass-paneled contraption in a Swarthmore College basement is very much a race car — in a race to use as little energy as possible.
� e svelte, three-wheeled vehicle is headed to Houston this week to compete among 125 entrants in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas.
Proud of your hybrid’s gas-sipping econ-omy? Take a backseat. Some of the cars in the running can achieve thousands — yes, thou-sands — of miles per gallon of gasoline. In the 2013 contest, Laval University in Quebec took top honors with 3,587 miles per gallon.
Swarthmore’s machine is somewhat less frugal, at the equivalent of less than 1,300 miles per gallon, though a direct comparison with gasoline engines is tricky since it is pow-ered by a hydrogen fuel cell.
And don’t get the idea that these curi-osities will be showing up on the Schuylkill Expressway. � e Swarthmore car weighs just 137 pounds and is 8 feet long.
“It’s a demonstration,” said engineering professor Nelson Macken, the project’s faculty adviser. “Totally unrealistic.”
Still, the race o� ers an idea of what might be possible on roadways of the future, with sleek, e� cient vehicles powered by a variety of fuels. As in the competition, the cars of tomorrow are likely to come in several � avors, depending on where you live in the country and which energy sources are most readily available.
� e Eco-marathon eld is divided into two main categories. “Urban concept” vehicles are required to look somewhat like contem-porary passenger cars, with four wheels and a roof over the driver’s head. Creators of pro-totype vehicles, such as Swarthmore’s, have freer rein.
Entrants must complete 10 laps of a 0.6-mile course laid out on the streets of Hous-ton, for a total of six miles. Shell rst held the “Americas” edition of the race in 2007; a sister event in Europe dates to 1985.
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Cats solid but can’t defend Big Ten crownBy kevin caseydaily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
The expectations have been high for Northwestern this season, and the team has mostly met them. But a Big Ten title defense was not in the cards.
A new year and a new course meant a different result, as the Wildcats placed third at Big Ten Championships this weekend following a win at the event last year.
Although the tournament didn’t disavow that NU is one of the Big Ten elite, all efforts were pointed toward a victory.
The No. 19 Cats were the highest-ranked team in the field and, after 54 holes of play, ended up 10 strokes behind No. 27 Ohio State and No. 25 Michigan State.
Coach Emily Fletcher pointed to the team’s play over the first 36 holes as the culprit in preventing a Cats victory.
“Those first couple of rounds, we spotted them a few too many shots,” Fletcher said. “In those rounds we lost quite a few shots with short game and putting.”
Fletcher wasn’t wrong to point to the initial 36 holes.
In the 2013 version of Big Tens, at the Donald Ross Course at the French Lick Resort, the Cats raced out to the first-day lead and remained steady over the final 36 holes on the way to victory.
This year the conference tourna-ment was played on the Pete Dye track at French Lick, and there was never the threat of a repeat storyline. NU was only
six strokes back after Friday’s first round, but sat in fifth place. The team moved up to third the following day, yet dropped to 10 shots off the pace.
For a moment on Sunday, it appeared NU might pull off a spirited comeback. In the middle of the back nine, the Cats were enjoying easily the best round of the day at 1 over par and moved within three strokes of the lead. But the defend-ing champions would drop eight shots over the closing holes in solidifying third place.
“At the beginning of the day I thought that if we shot even par, we would have a chance,” Fletcher said. “I wasn’t sur-prised that we made that charge, we were hanging in there and playing well at that point. But I knew it was going to be criti-cal that we finished strong and not com-mit any unforced errors, and then we had a couple of three-putts here or there that took the wind out of our sails.”
When it came to the individuals, NU deviated from its regularly-scheduled results. Yes, the No. 2-5 players all con-gregated within seven shots, but this bunching was further down on the lea-derboard than usual, mostly placing in the 30s.
The No. 1 also separated from the pack, with junior Hana Lee opening in consecutive 75s to jump four ahead of her next closest teammate. On the final day, four birdies over the first 12 holes staked Lee out to a 3-under start, and with only two bogies coming in, she posted a 70, the second-best round of the day, to finish solo third for the event.
Apparently, though, Lee wasn’t that impressed with her golf.
“I played well overall,” Lee said. “I
didn’t play great, but I stayed patient and did the best I could.”
Whatever the case, Lee was eight shots and ten places ahead of sopho-more Elizabeth Szokol. Fellow sopho-more Kaitlin Park uncharacteristically placed fifth among the six NU starters with a tie for 37th.
The week was only a slight set-back for the Cats, but last year the team experienced no such late season
regression on the way to a record-break-ing campaign.
Still, Fletcher is convinced in this team’s ability, calling this collection of players an “incredible talent.”
And the players believe too.“We definitely could have done bet-
ter but we are still right there with those other teams and have a real good chance at regionals and nationals,” Szokol said. “We’ve been playing really well the whole
year, so we have a good chance of playing well at regionals and nationals.”
The Cats will be the No. 7 seed at the NCAA West Regional, played from May 8 to 10 at the Tumble Creek Golf Club in Suncadia, Wash. A top-eight finish will ensure NU a return trip to the NCAA Championships, where the team placed 15th last year.
By Jesse kramerthe daily northwestern @Jesse_Kramer
Northwestern’s hot streak ended abruptly over the weekend, as the team was swept by Michigan State in a three-game series.
With only two Big Ten series remaining against Michigan and Ohio State, NU (12-28, 4-13 Big Ten) is now three games out of eighth place, the last qualifying spot for the Big Ten Tournament.
“I’m obvi-ously not happy with t h e w a y things went down this weekend,” coach Paul Stevens said. “But I can’t worry about that r ight now. We’ve still got two series, and we’ve got to find a way to get hot. … I
don’t think there’s a sense of urgency. There’s just a sense of understanding where you are and what needs to be done.”
The Cats hung close with the Spar-tans (24-17, 8-7) on Friday thanks to a solid six innings on the mound from sophomore Reed Mason and a pair of shutout frames from senior Nick Friar.
NU trailed 3-1 entering the ninth inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by sophomore pinch hitter Jack Mitchell. The Cats were in position to continue their late rally with men on first and second with one out, but junior third baseman Reid Hunter grounded into a game-ending double play.
NU’s bats struggled again Saturday,
as the team fell 7-1. The Cats trailed just 2-0 after four innings, but a four-run fifth for the Spartans blew the game open.
Sunday’s game was over early as the Spartans grabbed an 8-0 lead after two innings and cruised to a 15-3 win.
Over 27 innings, Michigan State’s loaded pitching staff held NU to six runs.
However, Stevens said he was not disappointed with the team’s perfor-mance at the plate.
“We swung the bats, hit balls hard at people,” Stevens said. “We had chances. We just didn’t find a way to get them in.”
The Cats have been plagued all season by injuries, and that trend continued at Michigan State with senior Jack Livingston and sopho-more first baseman Zach Jones going down.
“We’re going to have to go back to the drawing board a little bit and try to plug in some things,” Stevens said.
Stevens said getting swept was a disappointment, but he does not think his players will have any mental setbacks as a result moving forward.
“I’m not worried about our mental approach,” Stevens said. “They’re giv-ing me everything they have. I don’t draw any concerns about this men-tally crushing us. I’m expecting every guy to be sitting there ready to play when they say ‘play ball’ next week.”
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The Wildcats were finally tamed.Riding a nine-match winning streak
into the semifinals of the Big Ten Tour-nament, No. 32 Northwestern (21-10, 7-4 Big Ten) was ready to show defend-ing champion No. 2 Ohio State (30-3, 11-0) what it was made of.
But the Buckeyes reminded the Cats why they are ranked second in the country, trouncing NU 4-0 on Saturday.
“Ohio State, I give them a lot of credit,” coach Arvid Swan said. “We hung in there for a while, but they played an outstanding match.”
The Cats fought hard for the doubles point but ultimately came
up short. First, Hunter Callahan and Chris Diaz snapped the six-match win streak of NU freshman Strong Kirch-heimer and sophomore Fedor Baev with an 8-5 victory at No. 3 doubles. Then, NU’s 28th-ranked duo of senior Raleigh Smith and sophomore Mihir Kumar fell to the 57th-ranked pair of
Peter Kobelt and Ralf Steinbach.
Since Ohio State had the two wins neces-sary to clinch the doubles point, play was halted at 7-7 in the match of the No. 2 dou-bles team of freshman Sam Shrop-shire and
junior Alex Pasareanu.“What we could have done better
was start out quicker, especially in doubles,” Swan said. “They got a pretty good lead at number one doubles, and we came back and really made it a match, but that was a tough situa-tion. It was the same thing at number three doubles. If we had started a little bit quicker in doubles, maybe we con-vert that point and then we have some momentum going into singles.”
As for singles, the Cats fell quicker than the blink of a buckeye.
Pasareanu, No. 46 Smith and Kirch-heimer each lost in straight sets to hand Ohio State the victory. Kirch-heimer’s loss had not lost in singles since early March, with his defeat
ending a 12-match win streak.Although No. 120 Shropshire,
Kumar and freshman Konrad Zieba each won their first sets, it didn’t matter.
The Buckeyes were already advanc-ing to the finals of the tournament and play was suspended. Ohio State would go on to top No. 12 Illinois in the finals 4-2 to defend its title.
Still, the weekend had positive notes for the Cats.
One day earlier, fifth-seeded NU clobbered No. 34 and fourth-seeded Purdue 4-0 to advance to the semifinals.
“Our match against Purdue was perhaps the best match we’ve played all year in terms of putting everything together,” Swan said.
This time, NU secured the doubles point, and Smith, Kumar and Shrop-shire each cruised to straight set vic-tories, extending the team’s win streak to nine.
In addition, Smith and Shropshire were named first team All-Big Ten selections, Shropshire earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year and Pasareanu received a sportsmanship award.
And the loss to Ohio State doesn’t change a thing for the Cats headed into the NCAA Tournament.
“The guys are confident,” Swan said. “We have great momentum, having won nine out of our past ten matches. We understand that if we want to advance to the round of 16, we’re going to have to beat two qual-ity teams. When you play Purdue and Ohio State, it’s straight preparation for the quality teams you’ll play in the NCAA tournament.”
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
BRONZE MEDAL Elizabeth Szokol opened with an 80 at the Big Ten Championships but bounced back with a pair of 74s in the final two rounds. The sophomore finished tied for 13th for the event, and Northwestern placed third.
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STREAK BUSTED Freshman Strong Kirchheimer’s loss to Ohio State’s Hunter Callahan on Saturday was his first loss in singles since early March. Meanwhile, Northwestern’s 4-0 defeat snapped a nine-match winning streak.
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